Sentence examples for ethnic sense from inspiring English sources

Even the ethnic sense of identity, he argues, was born only after the first world war.

So whereas there is both an ethnic and a civic sense to be made of the term "French people," the term "Jewish people" has only an ethnic sense.

In particular, there is a distinction to be made between a people in the ethnic sense and a people in the civic sense.

It developed a political identity based on allegiance to the laws and norms of the state, rather than on any cultural or ethnic sense of Germanness.

Though there is no general consensus on this, a group counts as a people in the ethnic sense by virtue of common language, common culture, common history and attachment to a common territory.

So, when we consider whether or not a people has a right to a state of their own, are we speaking of a people in the ethnic sense or the civic one?

We need concern ourselves only with the other, ethnic or cultural sense of "nation," and focus on ethnic or cultural nationalism.

Villagers complained of indignities imposed by the foreign forces, the arrest and killing of civilians, house searches that violate the ethnic Pashtuns' sense of honor and the sanctity of the home, and checkpoints where they are forced to lift up their shirts, which is deeply shaming for Afghans, to show that they are not carrying explosives.

"He is a nationalist - in the federal 'Russian', not ethnic 'Russian', sense of the word.

It says something about his ethnic-tinged sense of humor that he once described Picasso, after visiting him at his villa outside Cannes, as "an old Jewish man in the Florida sun — all torso and shorts".

They would be punished.'" In a country made up of over 50 ethnic groups, a sense of national unity is vital.